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I’m Chip Huyen, a writer and computer scientist. I grew up chasing grasshoppers in a small rice-farming village in Vietnam.

I'm interested in AI for storytelling and roleplaying. Previously, I built machine learning tools at NVIDIA and Netflix. I've also founded and sold a company.

I graduated from Stanford, where I taught ML Systems. The lectures became the foundation for the book Designing Machine Learning Systems, which is an Amazon #1 bestseller in AI and has been translated into 10+ languages (very proud)!

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	Xách Ba Lô Lên Và Đi - Tập 1: Châu Á Là Nhà. Đừng Khóc! 3.88 avg rating — 1,487 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications 4.45 avg rating — 999 ratings — published 2022 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Giấc mơ Mỹ - Đường đến Stanford 4.05 avg rating — 924 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models 4.46 avg rating — 705 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tuổi Trẻ Không Hối Tiếc 4.32 avg rating — 605 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Xách Ba Lô lên Và Đi - Tập 2: Đừng Chết Ở Châu Phi 3.94 avg rating — 660 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Entanglements that never end by Alexandria Song, Chip Huyen (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Common pitfalls when building generative AI applications

As we��re still in the early days of building applications with foundation models, it��s normal to make mistakes. This is a quick note with examples of some of the most common pitfalls that I��ve seen, both from public case studies and from my personal experience.

Because these pitfalls are common, if you��ve worked on any AI product, you��ve probably seen them before.

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“Em bây giờ như miếng bọt biển vậy, em hấp thụ tất cả những gì xung quanh mình. Cứ đi nhiều đi, cứ trải nghiệm nhiều đi, cứ hấp thụ thật nhiều đi”.”
― Huyền Chip, Xách Ba Lô Lên Và Đi - Tập 1: Châu Á Là Nhà. Đừng Khóc!

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“Ôi Chip, mày nhận được những gì mày xứng đáng. Ai thèm để ý đến mày hả? Hàng triệu người ngoài kia thậm chí còn không biết bố mẹ mình là ai, nói gì đến ngày sinh. Nếu mày nghĩ mày xứng đáng nhận được nhiều hơn, hãy chiến đấu mà giành lấy nó. Không ai có trách nhiệm phải làm cho mày vui cả”.”
― Huyền Chip, Xách Ba Lô lên Và Đi - Tập 2: Đừng Chết Ở Châu Phi

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“Đừng nhìn việc không có tiền là một cản trở, mà nhìn nó như một thử thách để phát huy sự sáng tạo và khả năng giải quyết vấn đề của mình”.”
― Huyền Chip, Xách Ba Lô Lên Và Đi - Tập 1: Châu Á Là Nhà. Đừng Khóc!

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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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― Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

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“The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.”
― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

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“That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

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